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COLUMBIA, S.C. â Defense lawyers will advance arguments Tuesday on up to 20 issues in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, as to why Dylann Roof was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to the death penalty in 2017 after a weekslong trial. They will ask the court to vacate both the conviction and the death penalty.
Those arguments will be countered by a team of prosecution appellate lawyers from the U.S. Department of Justice. They seek to uphold the conviction and sentence.
Roof, 27, who grew up in Columbia, was sentenced to death in January 2017 by U.S. Judge Richard Gergel after a jury found him guilty of 18 death-eligible federal hate crimes and firearms charges in the Charleston church shooting. In a subsequent proceeding to determine sentence, the same jury ruled Roof deserved the death penalty. Gergel then pronounced the sentence.
Gracyn with her Aunt Bethane at a game.
When 28-year-old Gracyn Doctor thinks about her aunt, Bethane Middleton-Brown, a smile quickly spreads across her face. She s always been my favorite aunt, just my favorite person, Gracyn said. Her and my mom were super close. She was so smart. I feel like she really kind of stepped into the role almost that my mom was a little bit.
Gracyn Doctor is a reporter for WFAE. She remembers one day when she ran out of batteries for her recorder which is a very real source of anxiety for a radio journalist on a deadline. Panicked, she called her aunt.
March 20-27: The Week In Review From WFAE wfae.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wfae.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
we would like to remember those who were killed at mother emmanuel ame church. reverend pinkney, 41 years old, senior pastor at the church. sharonda coleman-singleton. twanza sanders, 2014 graduate of allen university. ethel lance, 70, worked for 30 years as mother emmanuel. susie jackson, 87, a long-time emmanuel ame church member. also the cousin of lance. cynthia herd, 54 years old, worked as a regional branch manager from the charleston county public library system. myra thompson, she had two children of her own as well as a stepchild. reverend daniel simmons senior, 74, retired pastor from another church in charleston. depayne middleton, 49 years old, retired government employee and at christmas eve is one week